The TREE (an angsana)located at the far side of the Kulim Padang has come to symbolize the comradeship of the students of St Patrick's School of the early 60s. Make sure you take a good look at it when you next visit the Southern capital and industrial town of South Kedah.
And they ask---Why I Like Retirement...
Question: How many days in a week?
Answer: 7 (6 Saturdays, 1 Sunday)
Question:
When is a retiree's bedtime?
Answer: Three hours after he falls asleep on the couch.
Question: How many retirees to change a light bulb?
Answer: Only one, but it might take all day.
Question: What's the biggest gripe of retirees?
Answer: There is not enough time to get everything done.
Question: Why don't retirees mind being called Seniors?
Answer: The term comes with a 10% percent discount.
Question: Among retirees what is considered formal attire?
Answer: Tied shoes.
Question: Why do retirees count pennies?
Answer: They are the only ones who have the time.
Question: What is the common term for someone who continues to work and
refuses to retire?
Answer: NUTS!
Question: Why are retirees so slow to clean out the basement, attic or garage?
Answer: They know that as soon as they do, one of their adult kids will want
to store stuff there.
Question: What do retirees call a long lunch?
Answer: Normal
Question: What is the best way to describe retirement?
Answer: The never ending Coffee Break or a permanent vacation.
Question: What's the biggest advantage of going back to school as a
retiree?
Answer : If you miss classes, no one can call your parents.
Question: Why does a retiree often say he doesn't miss work, but misses
the people he used to work with ?
Answer: He is too polite to tell the whole truth.
Question: What do you do all week?
Answer: Monday to Friday; Nothing, Saturday & Sunday I rest.
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Greetings to Ted, Bill & John,
I manage to get the email address of Ted & Bill from Richard Tan when I had
a chit chat with him this morning. Recently, Richard became my patient when
he consulted me at the Family Practice - Arkaba Medical Centre, Parkside,
South Australia. We have 20 GPs - half of them are female GPs who work part
time.
Richard email me the Flyer with regard to the reunion of the old boys of St.
Patrick's School on 01/10/2010 in Penang. Richard reiterated that John has
accepted the invitation. My wife and I will love to catch up with all of
you, especially with John whom I haven't seen since 1954. John, Harcharan
Singh & I were a couple of years ahead of Ted. I have a vague recollection
of Bill. I was at B.M. High School from 1955 - 1956 & I left for India to do
my Medicine & returned in 1964 to complete my Internship training at General
Hospital, Penang. In 1966, 12 Medical Officers were conscripted into the
Armed Forces when we fought the war against Indonesia during the infamous
Confrontasi. I was the Regimental RMO with the 3rd Royal Malay Regiment x 1
yr and I was posted to Bau, Kuching, Sarawak. I write tell you more in my
next email
Please fill me in with the details as my wife & I would be attending the
reunion. I hardly visit Malaysia these days.
Ted, thanks for "THE tree RU" and the stpatskulimblogspot.com . It's very
enlightening.
Regards.
Ronnie Koh Swee Nam.
R U Ready
In the morning for those interested meet up at the poolside at 6.00 am for Tai Chi
exercises or those who want to go for the morning walk be out side of the hotel by 6.30 am
and we will walk along Gurney Drive (can assure you it is interesting) or those that want
the gym just go there, bet you are not alone, those that want a swim the pool is yours.
As for breakfast meet at 7.30 am at THEtreeRU corner, it is specially reserved for us and
you can take all the time, the whole morning for breakfast. But for those who want to have
their breakfast outside the hotel there are a variety and walking distance and they are
good and tasty but you need to take a walk to Pulau Tikus, you can have Penang curry mee,
prawn mee, ‘Chay Koay Teow’, ‘Koay Chup’, ‘Ah Pong’, and many other Penang specials.
The morning is free and easy or meet at the hospitality suite and catch up on the lost times
A collection of photos of those days on picnics, excursions, cycling trips, dance parties
hiking up BM hill and Kedah Peak are all up on the walls. Check it out and see if you can recall
those days and who were there and can you recognize all those in the photos. I can assure
you it is great fun. We also have a huge map of Kulim and stick a tape on where you used to
lived. As for lunch we highly recommend that you go to the Berjaya Hotel for the Malaysian
Buffet and they have a special discount for senior citizens, all of us LAH!! it is real cheap at
RM 17.00 per head. You could of course take your own sweet time to have lunch and spend a
good 2 hours there. As for those who prefer the Penang hawker food or the Nonya food in
Pulau Tikus or you may go else where like Sri Bahari Rd, some nice restaurants there.
The afternoon is free and easy and could take a short walk to the Sleeping Buddha or the
recently opened ‘Kuan Yin’ in Ayer Itam may be worth visiting.
At 6.30 pm we meet at the foyer to the dinning hall where we will have a cocktail, and this
where we will exchange gifts as we were suppose to bring a gift of less than RM30 and
exchange it so we are going to have an interesting time, some surprises and may be some
disappointments but remember it is all for the fun of it. At one corner of the foyer we will
have some selected videos from You Tube and the songs have been specially selected as it
has certain messages and may touch you, drop a tear or two and enjoy it.
Dinner will start at 8.00 pm and it is a buffet dinner you are free to start at what ever time
you want and as long as you want. Of course in between we have music of the 60’s and some
great entertainment, you will laugh or cry but they have been specially put up for you, there
are some good singers, if they are no good throw them out. Dance if you want or can but at
the end of it is the Auld Lang Syne, we all sing this together at 12.00 midnight and till we
meet again.
FRIENDSHIP 4EVER …………………………………………………………………….. ………………………Teddy Dielenberg
My interest in education takes me through some of the schools to find what the children are learning. This is one example of what is taking place in one of the schools in Sydney. I am not suggesting that we imitate whatever is done in schools in other places but it is good to see what imagination can do. We have to be more imaginative and explore the wider world for our own good. Learning need not be confined to just the three Rs.What we need most are leaders with imagination in the field of education to make the country bloom.
'WHEN you are already learning Sanskrit, Latin, Spanish and putting on a Shakespearean production each year, the national literacy and numeracy tests might seem like a cinch to children at John Colet School.
Gilbert Mane, the headmaster of the independent school in Belrose, which came sixth overall in a ranking of NSW primary schools based on results from NAPLAN tests, said the students also studied philosophy and meditation.'
Extract from the Sydney Morning Herald
